Maria Isela Fierro, 64, passed away on Christmas morning, December 25, 2023, after long, difficult, three - year battle with cancer. She was born in 1959, in El Paso, Texas, was a 1978 graduate of Bowie High School, and lived in El Paso for the duration of her life. Maria was a dedicated Childcare Center Director with the YWCA for many years and ultimately retired. She later returned to work an additional decade at Costco with the food services contract.

Maria Isela was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother, was a kind person, and always cared for everyone who came into her life. She loved to travel the world to see her children and grandchildren wherever the Army would station them.

She is preceded in death by her father Jose Miguel Diaz, her mother Rita Moncada Diaz, and her brother Porfirio Diaz.

She is survived by family members: Her husband, Ramon Fierro; daughter, Cynthia Fierro Giesecke, son, Ramon Fierro Jr, and five grandchildren Marina Giesecke, and Nikolaus, Delilah, Josephine, and Harrison Fierro. She is survived by her siblings Juana Rivera, Soledad Diaz, Enriqueta Estrada, Alicia Vasquez, Miguel Diaz, David Diaz, Roberto Diaz, and Cecilia Cereceres multiple nephews, nieces, cousins, and many friends.